Shearwater - You As You Were lyrics

When you fell on the rocks At a bend in the river With the blood from your nose Running hot on your fingers And through the rest of your life The electric charge Of a change in the weather You are touching my arm You are holding a feather And then I open my eyes And the world goes racing Suddenly changed As the shock of the exit leaves you trembling Like a bursting shell In the small of your back Or a jaw bites hard On a cast of your little line And an animal life pulls, surging, away And you are back on the road Through the worst of the winter Through the valley of light Pa**ing through like an arrow With your vision collapsed And a stone from the river Like a holy medallion Clutching tight in your fingers But on the slope, at the edge Where you recover your life You could stand on the back of a shuddering beam With a pistol, firing shots into the air You could run in the blood of the sun's hard rays You could drive the mountains down into the bay Or go back to the East (Where it's all so civilized) Where I was born to the life But I am leaving the life I am leaving the life I am leaving the life I am leaving the life I am leaving the life I am leaving the life I am leaving the life I am leaving the life I am leaving